Summary
Laura Tonning is a Senior Director of Software Engineering based in Copenhagen with 15+ years of web development experience and a decade in leadership roles, currently overseeing technology for 3Z Brands and consumer brands like Helix Sleep and Brooklyn Bedding. She is a hands-on Laravel and Vue practitioner, coding daily and driving maintainable, testable systems while scaling engineering teams and delivery. A former founder/CTO, she brings entrepreneurial grit—having built SaaS platforms, booking systems, and large WordPress ecosystems from the ground up—which informs her pragmatic approach to product and architecture. Known for attention to detail and empathetic collaboration, she emphasizes knowledge sharing, refactoring legacy code, and integrating payments and APIs at scale. Her blend of director-level strategy with active daily engineering work makes her a rare leader who both sets direction and ships production-grade code.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish